PLANNED ASSESSMENT - 1 formal assessment that links to a key understanding or learning point, develops higher order thinking skills

and
comprehensively assesses student learning. Include how you would record the student achievement and how you would use this information for future teaching.

Saint Project

Considering the Saint, you have chosen for your Confirmation, you are required to complete a project including the following:

Item Description Checklist

Picture A picture of your Saint should be included in your project
Biography of your Saint This should include:
 Date and place of Birth, Date and Place of Death
 Country in which the Saint lived and the time in history
 Education and/or mission
 Struggles or problems in the life of the Saint
 Date of Canonisation or Beatification
 Feast Day (if applicable)
Saint Prayer Include a prayer for the Saint. If there is no prayer, make up a short prayer following
his/her life
Three things you Explain three things you admire about your Saint and give reasons why you admire
admire them
 Patron Saint Define Saint and explain whether your Saint is a Patron Saint or a place or person
Presentation of Work Your work should be typed and supported by pictures or diagrams. You may present
it on either a piece of A2 card or using ICT such as Keynote
Oral presentation You will need to present a part of your project to your classroom teacher before the
Confirmation Mass. Consider voice control and projection, what part you would like to
present and topic knowledge (do you know some of your information by heart or are
you reading everything?)
Bibliography Please record all the websites or books that you used to gather your information. It is
essential that you use your own words for this project. I will show you how to do this
in class
Teachers Notes /
Observations

LA4 Define Saint. Discuss the ways that saints are examples of people who reflect God through holiness in their efforts to do
what is good.
This assessment would be recorded electronically in SEQTA under Religious Education (Confirmation) and would contribute to the
student’s overall grade for the semester. This assessment piece allows the students freedom in the way that they present the
information they have researched. The assessment piece will confirm basic understandings of what it means to be a Saint however
gives the students the opportunity to display higher order thinking as they rationalise why they admire their Saint. In researching the
Saint, the student has chosen for their Confirmation, it allows deeper connection with the idea of people reflecting God and holiness
through doing good, usually despite hardship. The information the student includes in the project will allow the teacher to assess
whether the student has understood what it means to be a Saint and so will be able to judge if further teaching is required in this
area. The teacher can also assess the student’s ability for higher order thinking, a skill which may need constant support
throughout a student’s learning journey.

A checklist has been included in the assessment as it allows the students to check that they have provided all the required
information for the assessment. A rubric allows the teacher to record attainment of the expected standard and allow for
discrimination of the level of attainment. The rubric is educative as it allows for feedback that will direct student learning (and
therefore is formative) and meets the purpose of determining whether the learning outcomes have been met and to what degree.
The assessment tools allow a grade to be given at the end of a set of tasks, and so may be considered summative and may be
used as evidence in reporting.